Homosexual Rights Could Reshape Legacy of Supreme Court

I fully expect the Court to announce a national right to homosexual marriage. The justices had a chance last year to push back against the left's depraved homosexual agenda and caved. The ruling on California's Proposition 8 case was especially craven. I have no confidence that the Court will stand up for traditional values. Indeed, homosexual marriage has jumped the shark as far as I'm concerned. The left prevailed, by any means necessary. I do expect that the culture will shift back in favor of traditionalism (as is already happening, as per the Pew poll out recently on religion in public life), so it's way too early to rule out a comeback for decency and morality.

As I've said all along, the history of the abortion movement provides a classic case of common sense prevailing over the left's horrific culture of death. Given enough time, homosexuality will further destroy the foundations of the progressive consensus on same-sex licentiousness and decay. Common sense will prevail in time, especially should diseases such as HIV, now enormously overrepresented among young minority barebacking homosexuals, break out into an epidemic afflicting more and more of the general population.

But all of this takes times. We'll see how it goes.

Meanwhile, at WaPo, "As Supreme Court term begins, prospect of a gay-marriage ruling looms large":

The 10th edition of the Supreme Court under Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. begins work Monday with the prospect of a monumental ruling for gay rights that could serve as a surprising legacy of an otherwise increasingly conservative court.

Whether the justices will decide that the Constitution protects the right of same-sex couples to marry dominates expectations of the coming term; such a ruling would impart landmark status on a docket that so far lacks a blockbuster case.

And some say it would be a defining moment for a closely divided court that bears the chief justice’s name but is most heavily influenced by the justice in the middle: Anthony M. Kennedy, who has written the court’s most important decisions affording protection to gay Americans.

“If the court establishes a right to same-sex marriage . . . [it] will go down in history as one that was on the frontiers of establishing rights for gays and lesbians,” said David A. Strauss, a constitutional-law scholar at the University of Chicago.

“The rough idea would be that the Roberts court would be to the rights of gays and lesbians what the Warren court was on race issues.”

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